Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks rises to 3,194 m in California. Mount Sheldon stands 3,858 m to the east, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Ball Dome, a peak 1.3 miles away.
The story
Twin Peaks is a double summit, in Sequoia National Park, California, United States. The highest has an elevation of 10,463 feet (3,189 m).
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q28129853, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3,194 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Ball Dome: 1.3 mi
- Kettle Peak: 1.4 mi
- Mount Silliman: 1.6 mi
- Santa Cruz Dome: 2.7 mi
- Lower Tokopah Dome: 2.9 mi
- Wall Spring: 8.4 mi
- Slide Spring: 8.9 mi
- Granite Spring: 9.1 mi
- Hidden Spring: 9.3 mi
- Big Fern Springs: 9.4 mi
- General Sherman Tree: 6.2 mi
- Chief Sequoyah: 6.6 mi
- McKinley Tree: 6.7 mi
- Congress Group: 6.7 mi
- Lower Stony Creek: 6.9 mi
- Tokopah Falls: 3.8 mi
- Upper Buck Creek Falls: 7.3 mi
- Lower Buck Creek Falls: 8.2 mi
- Panther Creek Falls: 8.7 mi
- Marble Falls: 8.9 mi
- Shorty's Crowley Canyon Cabin: 3.1 mi
- Shorty's Williams Meadow Cabin: 5.5 mi
- Stephen Mather memorial plaque: 8.2 mi
- Old Ranger Station: 9.6 mi
- Shorty's Sphinx Creek Cabin: 12.7 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 5.4 mi
- Stony Creek Picnic Area: 6.7 mi
- Pinewood Picnic Area: 7.0 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 9.8 mi
- Hospital Rock Picnic Site: 10.5 mi
- Valhalla: 9.4 mi
- Windy Cliffs: 11.6 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 18.7 mi
- Muro Blanco: 19.9 mi
- Windy Cliff: 24.8 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 10.6 mi
- Cobble Knoll Recreation Area: 21.0 mi
- Slick Rock Recreation Area: 21.5 mi
- Lake Kaweah Recreation Area: 23.2 mi
- Horse Creek Recreation Area: 23.3 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 7.7 mi
- Three Rivers Historical Museum: 18.3 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 13.6 mi
- Jumping Rock: 13.9 mi
- Homer Ranch Preserve: 22.0 mi
- Dry Creek Preserve: 24.0 mi
- Kern Hot Spring: 21.2 mi
- Kearsarge: 23.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.8 miles of Twin Peaks. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Sheldon | E 79° | 3,858 m | 11.6 mi |
| Triple Divide Peak | ESE 116° | 3,839 m | 11.1 mi |
| Glacier Ridge | ESE 111° | 3,767 m | 9.0 mi |
| Lion Rock | ESE 121° | 3,767 m | 10.9 mi |
| Copper Mine Peak | ESE 118° | 3,763 m | 9.9 mi |
| Mount Stewart | SE 127° | 3,708 m | 10.8 mi |
| Eagle Scout Peak | SE 135° | 3,658 m | 11.6 mi |
| Horn Peak | ESE 121° | 3,584 m | 8.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:33 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 19:39 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:19 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:04 | 16:03 | 16:43 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 28 | 30 | 34 | 38 | 46 | 54 | 61 | 60 | 55 | 45 | 35 | 27 |
| Precip in | 8.7 | 7.9 | 6.4 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 6.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lodgepole, 4 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Sequoia National Park.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1660054 — Twin Peaks, Tulare County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358807624
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